The complaint for violence by a person holding public authority lodged by a motorcyclist injured in April in an accident with a police vehicle, which had caused clashes in the Paris suburbs, was dismissed, said Friday, December 4. corroborating sources.
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The offense is "
insufficiently characterized
", the investigation entrusted to the police police having failed to demonstrate the deliberately violent nature of the agent's actions, said the Nanterre prosecutor's office.
The latter also retained "
the behavior of the victim
" during the accident, which would have contributed to the facts.
"
It's absolutely scandalous,
" took offense to the biker council, Me Stéphane Gas, who questions the independence of the public prosecutor vis-à-vis the police.
The lawyer said he would relaunch the complaint next week, wishing "
that an investigating judge, an independent magistrate, be seized
".
While riding without a helmet on a cross-country bike in mid-April, a motorcyclist had his left leg fractured after hitting the open door of an unmarked police car that was stopped at a red light in the street. commune of Villeneuve-la-Garenne.
The accident, in full confinement, quickly ignited social networks, fed by videos of witnesses denouncing a
police
"
blunder
".
Clashes had taken place in the city the same evening, then for four consecutive nights, urban violence had broken out in the Paris region.
The biker then appealed for calm in a video.
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